2012 wbc 112 le

I just recently joined the BCCI club and this forum and would be interested in buying a similar 112 WBC LE.
I mainly collect 112's. Can someone give some ideas what would be the best way buy a knife similar to JB4570's #51 replacement send by Joe Houser?
I live abroad in Asia and have a friend in the USA who receives my purchases in the USA and forwards the knives to me in Asia. I can't really risk receiving a knife with scales I don't really like (the lighter stag). To send it back to BUCK is no option because it would cost me over $40 via EMS/DHL and then another $40 to have my friend in the USA forward it to me again. That's why I have only bought on Ebay so far. This way I at least know what I will get.

However, is it possible to somehow add a note saying what kind of stag you'd like on your knife with your order or will that be a mission impossible?

ps. Also still looking for the BCCI 112 FG Sambar Stag, drop point club knife. So if you know of any for sale, let me know!

Erik
 
skinnybones said:
I just recently joined the BCCI club and this forum and would be interested in buying a similar 112 WBC LE.
I mainly collect 112's. Can someone give some ideas what would be the best way buy a knife similar to JB4570's #51 replacement send by Joe Houser?
I live abroad in Asia and have a friend in the USA who receives my purchases in the USA and forwards the knives to me in Asia. I can't really risk receiving a knife with scales I don't really like (the lighter stag). To send it back to BUCK is no option because it would cost me over $40 via EMS/DHL and then another $40 to have my friend in the USA forward it to me again. That's why I have only bought on Ebay so far. This way I at least know what I will get.

However, is it possible to somehow add a note saying what kind of stag you'd like on your knife with your order or will that be a mission impossible?

ps. Also still looking for the BCCI 112 FG Sambar Stag, drop point club knife. So if you know of any for sale, let me know!

Erik
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Hi skinnybones,

Welcome to the Buck forum! There is a few options for you. There is one for sale right now on ebay nice stag & low number 13, or find a Buck dealer like Larry Oden also a BCCI club member (send him an email and he can hook you up).
jb4570
 
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I have long studied "stag", the antler not the life situation. As a wildlife biologist I have seen dead antler, live antler, mounted antler, knife antler, antler of all kinds. In this particular discussion three points are important.

1. Your perception of what stag should look like - In my perfect antler I like plenty of brown with the tips polished off by the animal to a nice yellowish ivory smooth texture. Battle scars add to character, please no broken tines. That is the animal whole antler answer. Several of my personal racks have the negatives.

2. In knife handles I desire and seek, and once-in-while find, a Buck scale with brown middles, not too heavily grooved. Some grooves just not Grand Canyon grooves. Popcorn of the European Red Stag type is good looking also. The ends against the bolsters can be lightly buffed down to ivory. But not too far from the bolster edge. Three eightes of and inch area (110,112). Both scale thicknesses should be fairly equal thickness. And the brown colors pretty close match. In all animals where you cut the slab effects whether you are going to get anything you like. Also different animals give different amounts and placement of my type of antler for slabs. *I think Joe would agree with me, Elk have considerable areas of 'smoother' surface, especially on the rear side of the beams. Other antlered critters are more consistant, hence the lean to Sambar and Red stag for high class knife scales. In my minds eye I expect elk to be lighter in color over Sambar or Red Stag.

3. And lastly, its all about "production" standards. Someone along the line decides how to cut the raw antler, someone decides what type of slab the specific design calls for, someone decides how to match up the raw slabs in pairs. The knife craftsman likely receives all these pairs in a tray already matched up and then they either have the ability to reject slabs or not. In my mind it is highly unlikely in the modern assembly line that the craftsman can take a whole lot of time to stop and 're-match' slabs. And I doubt it is looked upon kindly to constantly reject slab pairs. In the cost of making a knife any rejections need to occurr BEFORE you build a knife, not after. To get the high level of matching scale and color I look for I am sure will end up costing a high premium in cost to me the customer. But that is the way it is. One of my worst situations is a small folder with a slab cut cross-wise and mounted.....I will make one critical statement of my Buck experience, I swear in many cases the front slab, the one with the main blade finger nic, will be of higher quality than the back scale. Sorta like its being hidden....just my preception...

Just my two cents worth.......300Bucks
 
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300 Bucks said:

In my mind it is highly unlikely in the modern assembly line that the craftsman can take a whole lot of time to stop and 're-match' slabs. And I doubt it is looked upon kindly to constantly reject slab pairs.
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Exactly. Enough bad news and they'll eventually kill the messenger, so why not just let them go through? Who knows maybe the customer will be satisfied with a crappy piece of stag--it happens.

The last thing the harried worker wants to do is deal with it, so let the customer deal with it if he wants to.
 
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